22Dec 07
A Special Family Tradition
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Over the past weeks we have been VERY busy in the kitchen cooking up cookies, fudge, lemon cream loaves, snicker doodles, chocolate crinkle cookies, candy cane bark, and more! A favorite family tradition of ours is giving out Christmas goodies to family, friends, and 
neighbors. We all enjoy making the special treats. This year I was able to make fudge for my very first time. It can be very tedious work and requires that you dont give up!
When everything was finally ready we piled into the car and spent yesterday afternoon making the special deliveries. There was not enough time to make it to 
every house we wanted to so we may do a New Years Delivery too. I was encouraged by all the effort that was put into baking and shopping for needed supplies. Thank you Wilkes Team for the joy that you put into this special tradition. I cant wait till next year.
NEVER FAIL FUDGE
5 cups of sugar
1 can of evaporated milk (12 oz.)
1/4LB. butter of margarine
12oz. Marshmallow puff
1 teaspoon salt
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1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 large packages (12 oz.) of Semi-sweet Chocolate chips
Combine first five ingredients in large sauce pan. Stir over low heat until blended.
Bring to boil over moderate heat being careful not to mistake escaping air bubbles for boiling, THEN BOIL SLOWLY , STIRRING CONSTANTLY FOR 5 MINUTES.(use soft ball test)
Remove from heat, stir in chocolate and vanilla until chocolate is melted. Pour into 2 buttered 9 by 9 inch pans and cool.
Tips: I usually put the fudge in a 15 by 9 inch pan instead of two 9 by 9 inch pans. This will yield approximately 5 pounds.
I too enjoyed driving around making all those deliveries. It was especially a delight dropping off goodies to our future Culpeper neighbors.
And about that fudge recipe, the stores were sold out of the marshmallow cream we generally use. We were not too sure about how the fudge would turn out using this new marshmallow fluff. This didn’t stop Sarah though. She enthusiastically began making it and produced some of our best fudge ever! I even got my fingers into the production – yum! Thank you Sarah -
Giving is indeed the true spirt of Christmas. To carry out such a generous tradition requires a lot of work; its neat to see everyone pitching in to help.